Host a screening of 'Lyrebird'
Host a screening of 'Lyrebird' to help us distribute the film into AUS/NZ curriculum. https://www.themessageofthelyrebird.com/host-a-screening
The Message of the Lyrebird has won 15 awards, including 7 'best documentary' screening in 24 international film festivals. It has been called "one of the top 6 highlights at the Green Film Festival of San Francisco" by The San Francisco Chronicle and "A brilliant movie" by the World Animal Awareness Society.
Hatched over 11 years of independent production, the documentary follows a study group, a scientist, a lyrebird sound recordist, a lyrebird keeper, an activist and a Knowledge-Holder on a quest for intelligence and truth to learn more about the profound importance of co-existing with wildlife, our old-growth forests, the Earth, and The Dreaming. The film showcases spectacular forests of eastern Australia while exposing some of the most incredible bird behaviour and grass-roots study required of all of us who aspire to the title 'environmentally conscious'.
In our modern age of spiritual confusion, the lyrebird stands as a symbol of sacred harmony - the speaker of all languages and the dancer of life. The Message of the Lyrebird invites audiences to remember our place in the natural world and inspires us to cultivate the peace and reverence necessary for humanity's salvation.
Leaving Wittacork Dairy Cottages is harder than you think :-) 🐄
A Gentle Giant (TRAILER)
Believe it or not... tomorrow night is the Tasmanian premiere of 'A Gentle Giant'. Trailer below. The giant lobster's home state has rejected many opportunities to screen this international award winning film for almost three years... While it has screened in over 120 cities around the world, it's never played to a Tassie audience on the big screen... until now!
The film, starring Lobster man Todd Walsh will screen at iDEA Conference Green Film Festival, organised by DEA Doctors for the Environment Australia Locals: get down to The Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart 7:30PM Friday 5th April - LIMITED SEATS AVAILABLE. Other awesome enviro Tassie films screening on the night include 'Winter on the Blade', 'Plastic Shoreline', 'Preminghana', as well as another Balangara Tasmanian tale 'Looking After Our Food.'
Tickets $20 (general) / $10 (student)
All welcome - regardless of whether you're attending the rest of the conference or not!
Book tix here: https://ideaconference.wufoo.com/forms/idea-2019-social-and-workshops-program/
The Wilderness Society Tasmania
Developing an Ecological Consciousness
Are we in need of films that develop an ecological consciousness?
TV Interview excerpt with Balangara Films creative producer, Mark Pearce, discussing the importance of conscious-raising films in the ecological sector. Filmed for Filmski Magazin Programme with Ines Mrenica (Network BHRT - September 2017, Sarajevo) Special thanks to VIVA Festival
Tassie beekeeper message
Tasmanian beekeepers, Bob Davey and Hedley Hoskinson on the big screen at Environmental Film Festival Australia this time last week. "The honey bee is extremely important to mankind" – Hedley Hoskinson.
'Nature Needs You' @ 2017 Viva Film Festival
'Nature Needs You' screening at opening night 2017 VIVA Festival Sarajevo.
Thank you to the organizers at Viva and all the people who came together in Sarajevo for one of the most memorable times ever.
"We're constantly being led to believe, as Indigenous people, the benefits that will come from development are going to invest into a sustainable future for Aboriginal people; are going to invest into our self-determination. And yet, we don't even have the right to veto on our own lands. So logically it doesn't make sense - how are we ever going to generate self determination if we still don't have the right or capacity to control our land?" –Albert Wiggan
A Gentle Giant - the short film about a Lobster Man protecting a remarkable creature in Tasmania - has received Runner-Up selection in the environment category at Stories Lived. The online platform that hosts inspirational and motivational videos that move and inspire us to be the best version of ourselves we can be.
Checkout their FB page: #StoriesLived https://www.facebook.com/StoriesLived/
Watch Tassie Beekeeper's inspirational speech
Beekeeper, Bob Davey accepts tub of leatherwood honey from journalist and commentator, Sara James to deliver it to Tasmanian forest minister in order to make a simple statement: PROTECT OUR FOOD. (2016 TeFF)
Ecology Winners: 2016 VIVA International Film Festival.
VIVA Film Fest ecology winner's highlights video where the winning filmmakers where invited to the ceremony in Sarajevo. The beautiful clip of the bear is the “Bronze Butterfly” award winning film ‘The Unusual Guest’.
In the ecology category, the "Golden Butterfly" for best environmental film was awarded to director/producer, Mark Pearce from Australia for The Wilderness Society film "Nature Needs You." The second prize, a Silver Butterfly, won by Ergester Marcelo from Brazil for the film "Seed", while the third prize, Bronze Butterfly, won by Nisvet Rustic Bosnian, the author for the film "The Unusual Guest."
